[FrankR]

"The paper analyzed large UK studies which compared childhood intelligence with political views in adulthood across more than 15,000 people.

First of all, this was conducted in the UK, not the USA...such may be the case in the UK.

Once colleges and universities spray the liberal joy juice on the students, the "childhood intelligence" is wiped away and they become indocrinated, but educated, idiots.

If liberals are more intelligent, someone must be hiding those they polled in a bunker somewhere, because the liberals and lefties we see and hear daily are certainly not very good examples.

Bottom line: The mere fact that people think that socialism can actually WORK, shows a shallow and damaged intelligence.

You can't fix stupid...but you can give it a degree and it thinks it's smart.

[MestaMachine]

Psychiatrists and psychologists are dangerous to humans and other living things. 85% of’em are certifiable and should be removed to an island where they can only analyze each other. They would be happy as clams for the rest of their unnatural lives.

[Bullish]

Liberalism is the intellectually lazy path to a feeling of self-worth and superiority. It’s a sham that rejects reality in favor of a world view that sees things the way the liberal wants things to be instead of the way they really are. Liberal self delusion is at the heart of this bogus “study”.

[Ohioan]

You make sound points. To understand what has been going on in Academia, see Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education.

Pay particular attention to the role of Gordon Allport, the supporter of the Communists in the Spanish Civil War, who as a Professor at Harvard was touted across academia as an expert on "Prejudice," by the 1950s & 1960s. He even insulted those who valued their own families--a real example of fatuous Leftist theory substituted for reality.

William Flax